Journal of Medical Diagnostic Methods
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Al-Imamein Al-Kadhimein Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq

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• Research Article   
  The Clinical Value of DWI and T2WI MRI in the Detection of Transitional Zone Prostatic Cancer
  Author(s): Al-Yasi ZI, Kadhim MA and Jawad MK*
  
  Background: The prostate cancer is one of the commonest non-cutaneous cancers detected among elderly men. The difficulty in interpretation of the transitional zone prostate MRI arises mainly from the presence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) nodules in the transitional zone. Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy of DWI in combination with T2WI for the detection of transitional zone prostate cancer, compared with T2WI alone. Patients and methods: A total of 58 patients with clinical suspicion of prostatic cancer were evaluated by 1.5 T MRI. Two diagnostic protocols were designed, protocol A consists of only data obtained from T2WI, protocol B consists of T2WI and DWI. The likelihood of the presence of prostate cancer in transitional and central zone was assigned using a 5 point.. View More»
  

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